{"id":161,"date":"2011-02-22T16:36:51","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T21:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/kleelerner\/?p=161"},"modified":"2022-03-11T08:37:15","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T13:37:15","slug":"hemingway_paris_movable_feast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kleelerner\/hemingway_paris_movable_feast\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris \u2014 Hemingway\u2019s Paris Shortcut: A Movable Feast\u2019s Elusive Backdoor"},"content":{"rendered":"
K. Lee Lerner \/ Lerner KL. Paris — Hemingway\u2019s Paris Shortcut. A Movable Feast\u2019s Elusive Backdoor<\/a>. Taking Bearings. LMG (London, Paris, Cambridge). 2011.<\/div>\n
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Paris — Our apartment on Rue Vavin is right in heart of Hemingway\u2019s Paris described in the middle portions of A Movable Feast (which covered the time Hemingway lived at 113 Rue Notre Dame des Champs). Gertrude Stein\u2019s 27 Rue de Fleurus studio is one block over, and I walk by it almost daily to buy mandarins. The Jardin du Luxembourg and my p\u00e9tanque courts are a mere 40 meters away.<\/p>\n

Hemingway\u2019s lean prose is offset by his expansion of time and distance.<\/p>\n

In that expansion lies literary detail and significance, but in purely physical terms Hemingway\u2019s walks are far shorter and the hills slighter in grade than they read in A Movable Feast<\/i> and The Sun Also Rises<\/i>.<\/p>\n

I often take morning coffee at Le Select, and frequent the other \u201cprincipal caf\u00e9s,\u201d le Dome, Le Rotund, and Le Coupole. All are still operating near the tortuous intersections of the Boulevard Montparnasse, with the Boulevard Raspail and Rue Vavin. All are an easy two minute walk.<\/p>\n

For all the caf\u00e9s and the tourists they attract, this side of the 6th is far quieter and more livable than the Senate\/St. Germain side. Le Select can be crowded at times, \u00a0but a bit father up Rue Delambre lies a favorite of Henry Miller, the Caf\u00e9 de la Libert\u00e9. It\u2019s almost always quiet, and thus a good place have a conversation.<\/p>\n

The walk to la Libert\u00e9 on the Rue Delambre takes me past the spot where Hemingway first met Fitzgerald. \u00a0The Dingo Bar is gone, and but the old wooden bar remains inside a \u00a0trendy caf\u00e9.<\/p>\n

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K. Lee Lerner \/ Lerner KL. Paris — Hemingway\u2019s Paris Shortcut. A Movable Feast\u2019s Elusive Backdoor. Taking Bearings. LMG (London, Paris, Cambridge). 2011. Abstract: Paris — Our apartment on Rue Vavin is right in heart of Hemingway\u2019s Paris described in the middle portions of A Movable Feast (which covered the time Hemingway lived at 113 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9949,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[297806],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-taking-bearings-column"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kleelerner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kleelerner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kleelerner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kleelerner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9949"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kleelerner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kleelerner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kleelerner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions\/303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kleelerner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kleelerner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kleelerner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}